Program

All times are in AEDT: Australian Eastern Daylight Time (GMT +11)

Day 1: 10 November 2025

• 9:00 – 9:30 am
  Opening and welcome
  Professor CP Lim, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
• 9:30 am – 10:30 am
  Keynote: Human-centric design in public safety systems
  Professor Milad Haghani, The University of Melbourne, Australia
• 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
  Keynote: Human-Centric AI for Sustainable Agriculture: Bridging Robotics, Digital Twins, and Farmer Needs
  Professor Gerry Lacey, Maynooth University, Ireland
• 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
  Lunch break
• 2.00 – 5.00 pm
  AI for Autonomy in Aerial Robotics – the past, the present and the future
  Dr. Archit Krishna Kamath, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Day 2: 11 November 2025

• 9:00 am – 9:30 am
  Opening and welcome
  Distinguished Professor Saeid Nahavandi, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
• 9:30 am – 10:30 am
  Keynote: Human-Centric Generative and Geospatial AI for Urban Digital Twins
  Professor Soheil Sabri, University of Central Florida, USA
• 10:30 am – 12.00 pm
   Observe / participate at AI-Empowered Human-Machine Teaming (HMT) Competition
• 12:00 pm – 1.00 pm Lunch break
• 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
• Human-Centred Testing and Understanding of Intelligent Software Systems

Dr. Huai Liu, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

• 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
  Keynote: Veni, Sensi, Vici: Touch, on the Robot Physical Intelligence

  Dr. Wu Yan, A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

• 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
• Observe / participate at AI-Empowered Human-Machine Teaming (HMT) Competition

Day 3: 12 November 2025

• 9.00 am – 12.00 pm
• Observe / participate at AI-Empowered Human-Machine Teaming (HMT) Competition
• 12:00 pm – 2.30 pm Lunch break / AI-Empowered Human-Machine Teaming (HMT) Competition Awards Ceremony
  • 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
  • Industry Speech: Bringing Order to Chaos: Innovation Management for the Modern Age
    Dr. Soo Beng Khoh, PMO Innovations

Day 4: 13 November 2025

• 9:00 – 9:30 am
  Opening and welcome
  Professor CP Lim, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
  • 9:30 – 10:30 am
    Keynote: High-fidelity motion simulators for virtual vehicle prototyping and driver performance analysis
    A/Professor Houshyar Asadi, Australia
  • 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
    Vehicle dynamics, path tracking controller, comfort improvement, trajectory prediction, and actuation for autonomous driving
    Dr. Mohammad Reza Chalak Qazani, James Cook University, Australia
  • 12:00 pm – 1:00pm Lunch break
  • 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
    Keynote: Empowering Aerial Robots through Physics-Informed Machine Learning 

    Professor Mir Feroskhan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  • 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
    Perception, Deep Learning, Decision Fusion Programmatic Control for Autonomous Systems
    Dr. Parham Kebria

   

Day 5: 14 November 2025

• 9:00 am
  Opening and welcome
  Distinguished Professor Saeid Nahavandi, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
• 9:00 am -10:00 am
  Keynote: Reward Design for Reinforcement Learning: From Autonomous Control to Large Language Model Development
  Professor Thanh Thi Nguyen, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
• 12:00 pm – 1:00pm Lunch break and wrap up